Ministry of Planning and Economic Development holds a training workshop on the most important national projects and the role of the infrastructure sector

The Ministry of Planning and Economic Development held recently a training workshop for students of the second and final batch of the current year of the summer training program that the ministry holds annually.

 The workshop reviewed the competencies of the ministry and the most important national projects it is working on and the role of the infrastructure sector, in the presence of Mr. Mohamed Farid, Assistant Minister for National Projects, Mr. Heba Mohamed Abdel Moneim, supervisor of the Central Administration for Construction and Housing.
Muhammad Farid talked about many national projects that the state is working on and in which the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development participates, pointing to a national project to reclaim millions of acres to provide wheat and the country's main crops for 200 billion.


The project includes networks extending more than 300 km to ensure that water is not wasted to reach the desert areas and to create a new delta.

 Farid added that the cost of one of the water purification plants in the project has so far reached 60 billion pounds to treat wastewater, to reclaim about 2.2 million feddans south of El-Dabaa.
Farid stressed that the project aims to reduce the gap between what is imported and what is available from 40% to 20% next year.

In the infrastructure sector, productive activities and services, Farid explained that the sector is one of the most important sectors in the ministry, as its importance stems from the association of its activities with businesses that significantly affect the state's economy because it contributes to supporting all economic sectors.


For her part, Heba Abdel Moneim reviewed the organizational structure of the infrastructure sector at the Ministry of Planning, and the most important ministries and agencies responsible for them, explaining that the sector includes the central administration for productive activities and services, the central administration of commerce and industry, the central administration of housing, the central administration of agriculture and irrigation, and the central administration of energy.



Regarding the most important national and strategic projects, Abdel Moneim referred to the project to develop and expand the national road network, the rapid electric train network, the monorail, the national project for the rehabilitation and lining of canals, and the project to develop slums.